{"id":2776,"date":"2023-07-15T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2023-07-15T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T09:22:40","slug":"naf-trainer-plane-crashes-in-makurdi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/07\/15\/naf-trainer-plane-crashes-in-makurdi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NAF trainer plane crashes in Makurdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) FT-7NI trainer aircraft crashed on Friday at about 4.15pm in Makurdi, Benue State while on a routine training exercise.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Air Force, the two pilots on board survived the crash after successfully ejecting from the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>There was no loss of lives or damage to any property around the area of impact.<\/p>\n<p>The pilots are currently under observation at NAF Base Hospital, Makurdi, the statement signed by Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, Director of Public Relations and Information, said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has constituted a Board of Inquiry to determine the immediate and remote causes of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) FT-7NI trainer aircraft crashed on Friday at about 4.15pm in Makurdi, Benue State while on a routine training exercise. According to a statement from the Air Force, the two pilots on board survived the crash after successfully ejecting from the aircraft. There was no loss of lives or damage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}